Category: Feature

Pavement

Shadiomar McPharlene / Student Journalist Homelessness is too often linked to the stereotype that everyone that is mentally ill is homeless or, everyone that is homeless must be mentally ill.…

Impoverished

Adrianna Miller / Student Journalist Jamaica still struggles with a significant poverty problem, especially concentrated in rural areas where residents still have significantly less access to services such as running…

Joseph Burgher

Jevon Williams / Student Journalist Joseph Burgher, native of St. Thomas, Jamaica, born April 1, 1967 and known to most as the blind beggar. I met him when I visited…

16 Years In A Car

Adrian Smith / Student Journalist George Lattibeaudiere, affectionately called ‘Breezy’, hails from Scotts Hall in the parish of St. Mary. He is a labourer in the late forties who has…

Skin Bleaching

Patraloye Williams / Student Journalist This phenomenon of ‘skin bleaching’ has become an emerging worldwide trend for dark-skinned individuals to mix various skin lightening chemicals together and apply them to…